The Whitney scamp is a light sporting biplane with open cockpits designed by Mr W ‘Bill” Whitney in Queensland for amateur construction by Mr. Hargrave.

In the late 1950s Transfield Construction Pty Ltd was founded by two Italian immigrants to contract to do transmission line work in Australia. A subsidiary, Transavia Corp, was formed in 1964 to build aircraft.

In 1933/34, following the announcement of the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia, there was great interest around the World and many persons and organisations set about entering suitable aircraft.

The prototype of the S2 series was flown for the first time in 1956. Designed by Leland Snow, who founded the Snow Aeronautical Company (later Corporation), the type has proved to be very successful in its role as an agricultural aircraft over the years.

The Nipper was designed by Mr E O Tips, who was managing director of Avions Fairey SA in Belgium. Previously Mr Tips had designed the Tipsy S, Tipsy B, the Belfair, Primer Trainer, and the Junior.

In the 1950s Reginald Todhunter became involved in sailplanes and started a business Glidair Sailplanes at Bankstown, NSW, where he repaired gliders.

In 1967 brothers, Reginald and Ernest Todhunter, who at the time lived at Condell Park, a western Sydney suburb, commenced the design of a man-powered aircraft to enter the Worldwide competition announced by Henry Kremer, a British Industrialist, of a sum of $75,000 for the first group to build and

The Pegasus is a single engine high-wing monoplane with hybrid control, the wing having a swept back leading edge and a tapering chord. It has a canard wing and no tail.

The Alpin is one of a series of gliders produced in the Czech Republic by TeST, this company being formed in 1992 with the aim of designing and producing ultralight gliders, ultralight motor gliders, and ultralight aircraft and to this end the company has been very successful.

The Texas Parasol was a cheap to build light aircraft designed along the lines of Charles Beeson’s Chuckbird which was built near San Antonio, Texas, and more than 60 examples were completed.

The CX-4 is a single-seat, all-metal light sporting aircraft designed by David Thatcher of Pensacola, Florida, aimed at the homebuilt market and normally to be fitted with a Volkswagen engine conversion.

For a period in the 1920s Thomas-Morse fighters were the main equipment of the front-line pursuit squadrons of the US Army and US Marine Corps and were produced in large numbers.

The Mini-Imp was one of a number of designs developed by well-known American designer, Molt Taylor. Taylor was born in Portland, Oregon and was known for designing a number of interesting aircraft, including the XLRQ-1 amphibious assault glider, the Coot and others.

For many years Team Incorporated of Bradyville, Tennessee produced a range of ultralight aircraft for the sport aircraft market, these being produced in kit form for the amateur builder with limited finance.

The TechPro Merlin dates back to 2011 when the first prototype flew, the supply of kits commencing in 2015. Three variants are available, the Merlin 100UL with a tricycle undercarriage or a tailwheel, first flown in April 2012 and aimed at the Federation Aeronautique International microlight class.

The SP-55M is a redesign and developed variant of the Yakovlev Yak-55 and has been built and marketed by Technoavia in Moscow and, like its predecessor, has been a popular aircraft around the world for competition in Unlimited Category competitions.

The UFO series of light aircraft was designed by David Rowe, an engineer, at Scone, NSW. The aircraft commenced with a sketch he made of a circular shaped aircraft.

The design for a single-seat, sporting monoplane of all-wood construction, which became known as the Rollason Beta, resulted from a competition conducted by Rollason Aircraft and Engines in the United Kingdom in 1964.

This aircraft, marketed by Replica Plans of Chilliwack, British Colombia, was designed as a scaled-down replica of the famous SE-5a fighter of World War I, incorporated modern techniques and a modern American engine to permit the aircraft to be built by amateur constructors.

The Mini 500 single-seat helicopter is one of a new breed of machines aimed at the sporting and farming markets and has been developed by Revolution Helicopter Co of Excelsior Springs in Montana.

The Sabre was a one-off unlimited-category aerobatic aircraft designed in the United States by Daniel Rihn.

In 1984 in the United States Gerald Ritz designed an ultra-light aircraft and commenced to supply plans to the amateur-built aircraft market but shortly after, whilst testing the aircraft was killed due, it is said, to a flaw in the aircraft’s design, this being related to the wing suffering aeroelastic

The S.12 Airaile is one of a range of light aircraft designs released by Rans Inc of Hays, Kansas.

The S-12 Airale was, like all the aircraft in the Rans light aircraft series, designed by Randall Schlitter and introduced to the experimental home-built aircraft market in March 1980, this being a two-seat high-wing monoplane with side-by-side seating and a tricycle undercarriage.

The S-17 Stinger is a single-seat high-wing light sporting aircraft with a pusher engine produced by Rans Aircraft in Hays, Kansas in the United States and is supplied in kit form.

Designed by Nick Jones, the Lightning Bug was a follow-up to the high performance four-seat aircraft by the same designer, the White Lightning, but was entirely different in being a single-seat high performance monoplane for aerobatic work.

The Flying Fox, as it was known, was designed by Captain R W Reid, MC, who had served with the Australian Flying Corps during World War I.

The S-9 Chaos, produced by Rans Inc of Hays, Kansas, was introduced to the company’s range of light sporting aircraft in 1986.

The Special biplane was designed and made available to the amateur builder by RagWing Aircraft Designers of Belton, South Carolina, and is a low powered aircraft similar in configuration to the Pitts S-1 designed to create a relatively fast machine for cross-country flying but very small and powered by relatively

The Ultra-Piet is one of a number of designs produced in kit form for the amateur construction marketed by Rag Wing Plans Service of Craytonville Airfield, Honea Path, South Carolina. It is a 75% scale model of the Pietenpol Air Camper of the 1930s.

In the late 1920s James Church built a light aircraft known as the Church Midwing JC-1 for racing using the fuselage of a Heath Parasol, the aircraft being a wire-braced mid-wing aircraft.

Rand Robinson Engineering Inc of Huntington Beach, California, was formed in the United States in 1974 to market plans for the KR-1 single-seat, and KR-2 two-seat series of amateur constructed aircraft.

The S-4 / S-5 Coyote I series of ultra-light aircraft was introduced to the Company’s range in 1983 at its facility at Hays, Kansas.

In 1931 Richard Sutton, a member of the Queensland Aero Club, indicated an interest in building an aircraft of his own design.

The SA-500, sometimes known as the Starlet, or the Sprite, is built and marketed by Stolp Starduster Corp in Oroville, California.

The S-5 was one of a series of racing aircraft designed by R J Mitchell (designer of the Spitfire) in the 1920s, this aircraft being designed and built for the 1927 Schneider Trophy Race to replace the S-4 which crashed during trials.

The Sunbird was a motor glider or self-launched glider designed and constructed in New Zealand by Charles Stanton over a three year period from 1993, the machine utilising some parts from the American Eaglet ZK-GOE (c/n AACA/641) which Mr Stanton had previously owned.

The RF-4 was one of a series of self-launched gliders designed by Rene Fournier in France. The first of the motor glider series of aircraft was the RF-01 (F-WJGX) built in a disused laundry in Cannes over a period of three years.

William Douglas Sloane (known as Douglas) was born on 4 June 1890 at Mulwala Station north of Yarrawonga, VIC.

The HH-1 Hawker Hurricane was designed by Fred G Sindlinger in Washington as a ⅝-scale replica of the famous Battle of Britain fighter of World War II, being aimed at representing a scale version of the Hurricane IIc.